Weatherlawyer wrote:
Ah, but the moon does spin. The period of its rotation is equal to its
orbital period, that is why the same side of the moon faces us.

And the coincidence in there escapes you?

Which part of the mechanism of gravitational locking are you struggling
to understand?

Best,
Stephen

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